Mopes: A Book of Poems in Three Acts by Kenneth Reveiz Straddling the wreckage of late capitalist America, the poems in Kenneth Reveiz’s MOPES arc urgently toward utopia—or at least they do their best. The intimate eros of liberated queerness is interrupted, undermined by a flood of dystopian American violence. The choice to fight for love and […]

Fence Issue #40 Winter 2023    Poetry.  Fiction.  Translation.   &.  Other.     Super-contemporary literary incitements since 1998.   Shipping Mid-March 2023 To Libraries, stores, Subscribers, and Members   ◊  ◊  ◊  F E A T U R I N G  ◊  ◊  ◊   ♦ An Editor’s Note from Issue 40-41 Visiting Editor Edgar Garcia. […]

The 2023 Rae Armantrout Fence t-shirt, designed by Fence intern Cath Cai, features an excerpt from Armantrout’s poem “Falling (1)” as printed in the first issue of Fence in 1998. Receive yours with a $20 donation or higher. This link will take you to PayPal, where if you click “+Add special instructions to the seller,” […]

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If you listen closely, you can hear a frail ringing noise, like when the television would run out of programming late at night in the ‘80s. Only much softer. It keeps me up. At two in the morning the choral music starts again. My mother complained about it at lunch yesterday. She said, ‘the mosque […]